![]() Juliet’s mother, Claire van Kampen, directed “Idaspe,” put on by Quantum Theatre and Chatham Baroque, last fall. In 2021, Conrad filmed a part in Pittsburgh in the yet-to-be-released indie feature “Basic Psych,” directed by Melissa Martin (“The Bread, My Sweet”) and co-starring Michael Cerveris (“The Gilded Age”), who spent a few years living in Pittsburgh and recurring on “Mindhunter.”Ĭonrad’s ties to Pittsburgh continue through his girlfriend’s family. It’s also based on a Rule book, filmed in Fairmont and features WTAE-TV reporter Sheldon Ingram acting in a supporting role. It’s a busy weekend for this production company, which also made Lifetime’s “A Rose for Her Grave: The Randy Roth Story,” which premieres at 8 p.m. The film, produced by Morgantown, W.Va.-based Allegheny Image Factory (“Feast of the Seven Fishes”), is inspired by “Last Dance, Last Chance and Other True Cases” by Anne Rule. Sometimes the violence you don’t see is all the more effective.” ![]() “With so many films they’re like, ‘We’re depicting the horrors of war,’ and I’m like, no, you’re mostly just titillating people with horrible visions of violence. “You can tell the story of cruelty and violence without having to show it,” Conrad said. “That’s the key and the twist of the story is it’s these two people (the kidnapper and the kidnapped) who have to stare at each other and go, ‘I’m terrified of you’ or ‘I’m angry at you,’ but they become people who can deal with each other and she understands him to some extent,” Conrad said.Īnother distinction: Gun violence is implied, its impacts shown, but no guns are fired. While the film has some expected Lifetime movie, women-in-peril trappings, “12 Desperate Hours” also breaks from genre conventions by humanizing the kidnapper and showing how and why he’s driven to extremes. “12 Desperate Hours” stars Samantha Mathis as a wife and mother who’s going about her day, planning a date night with her husband (Conrad) when a wild-eyed stranger (Harrison Thomas, “Better Call Saul”) breaks into her home and takes her at gunpoint. It was lovely to be there, but I wasn’t driving down the street I grew up on.” … It was a short little shoot in West Virginia and it was like being home but not being home. “It was a neat thing to play a regular dude, living in the hills and driving a truck and working on a construction site. “Gina Gershon is close friends with my girlfriend’s dad (actor Mark Rylance) and she was like, ‘I’m thinking about talking to this Conrad guy,’ and he was like, ‘Well, I know him,’ ” Conrad recalled. last summer coincided with the filming of “12 Desperate Hours,” directed by director/actress Gina Gershon (“Showgirls”) in Fairmont, W. Conrad has been teaching acting there and he’s been writing scripts with hopes for a development deal or production in the near future. Turns out, Conrad has largely been living in England with actress girlfriend Juliet Rylance (“Perry Mason”). A recurring role on “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” wrapped in 2014. ![]() The usually busy actor, who maintains a residence in Braddock, hasn’t had a series regular role since “Ghost Whisperer,” which ended in 2010. Saturday) but it’s his first filmed acting role in quite a while. ![]() Swissvale native David Conrad stars in the Lifetime movie “12 Desperate Hours” (8 p.m. ![]()
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